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Old Posted Dec 28, 2017, 8:56 PM
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Originally Posted by GernB View Post
Because virtually all economically arable land under federal control is already settled. Do you really think any immigrant from anywhere in the world today would choose to homestead on the fringes of rural settlement on the chance he would get title to 160 acres of marginal, largely worthless land?
We could give them an eighth acre to live on in suburban Toronto while they work at a call centre for a bank or telecom company. There's no reason we can't adapt past techniques to modern realities!
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